Wonder Woman Katie Stafford has played her last MM for a while, as well as Hector Rivera Melo, both leaving Sydney for other adventures. It’s been marvellous to see their progress from virtually beginners to players of quite high calibre. I hope they’ll remember where they started when they win the Worlds… Good for others to actually see how fast and how much you can improve if you only play once a week for a few months. Hector has been pushing his scores down bit by bit and finished off with a round of 60, one under par. Katie pushed Uai Stack to bring out her best game, improving her own record with quite a few strokes – truly impressive ladies!

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MADD MACQ’S 003 was so wet and ugly so it’s something we’d all rather forget. The only really good thing was the evidence of true dedication! The sun shone all day long during MADD MACQ’S 004 but nature also offered truly challenging wind conditions. The fountain sprayed almost horizontally at times – that’s how bad it was. With a little bit too much angle on the disc, just a tiny bit too high and maybe a notch too hard, you sent your 4-meter putt 20 meters away turning your potential 4 into a 7 in an instant.

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Paul Arden’s Am Worlds 2005 blog is permanently available online. If you haven’t already taken a look, then check it out, address inside.

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Top Throws
(from Greg Sparksman’s Yahoo! posting)
Uai’s new ‘Original’ course record of 73, with birdies on holes 6, 8,16 & 18 in Round2, & on #17 in Round1. Katie did win two holes from Uai on #2 in Rd1 & #3 in Rd2.

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We don’t have any report text as yet because Kurt has put all of his energy into organising these fantastic events for you lucky Sydney players. For now, here are the results…

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Already more than 20 people have tried Macq’s course in tournament play and that after only two “real” events. The word is spreading and we are spreading the word – I don’t think we’ll be fewer in the future! This time the highlights were Uai’s thai food and the two Melbournians Ian Bycroft and Paul Arden honouring us by making the long flight just to play with us. We also had a clear blue sky, 20 degrees, model plane enthusiasts, falun gong practitioners and some sprinters. I can see a lot of improvement in technique even though it doesn’t always reflects in the scores (yet). Peter Stack and Roger Barnes improved the most. Given some time, we’ll see a certain breed of Macq-golfers, easily recognised by a fatalistic attitude towards the fate of putts and a severely delayed celebration for putts that actually stays in…

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